Safe Slang ?

I was scrolling through some "tweets" on twitter the other day and saw a tweet that someone had posted about a piece of failing electronic equipment. It was just a two sentence tweet and the last sentence simply said "Frick"

I hear the words freakin', flippin', frickin' and friggin' used in conversation almost daily. I admit that even I have used them. But in the back of my mind I've always thought they were a non-swearing substitute for another "F" word that is an awful word to use. I had some spare time today so I decided to do some word searching on Meriam Webster.

Freaking: Function: adjective or adverb Etymology: euphemism for frigging or that "F" word that I refuse to write.

Frigging: Function: intransitive verb Inflected Form(s): frigged; frig•ging
Etymology: Middle English fryggen to wriggle Date: 1598 often vulgar : COPULATE —sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive

Flipping: Function: verb Inflected Form(s): flipped; flip•ping Etymology: probably imitative Date: circa 1567 3slang a: to lose one's mind or composure —often used with out b: to become very enthusiastic

Fricking - I couldn't find any form of Fricking on the Meriam Webster Online dictionary. I did, however find it in the Urban online dictionary for slang terms and as I'd suspected its slang for the you what word that starts with "F".

So as it turns out Freaking, Frigging and Fricking all have a derogatory connotation associated with them. Flipping, though it still doesn't sound good at least didn't have unacceptable connotations.

It's easy to get caught up in slang. Everybody uses it and so you can find yourself just being part of the crowd. However, now that I've confirmed my suspicions about these slang terms I'm going to be very attentive to not using them in my casual daily conversations. I'd rather not be part of the crowd.